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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Copyright limits natural (an odd word, that) property rights--just like laws against gun usage in city limits, or laws against dumping toxic chemicals, or laws about noise levels. All of those limit how you can use your legally-owned property.
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Exactly. So, just as laws against dumping toxic chemicals are very different from natural property rights, so is copyright. People seldom think laws against dumping toxic chemicals are pro property rights, but for some reason lots of people think copyright is.
(Note that I didn't say whether I think copyright is good or bad, just that it's an incursion into traditional property rights instead of supporting such rights.)